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The ECM Suites Report 2009 looks at... Xythos' Partitioning Document Content

"The unusual element of Xythos architecture comes in its use of document stores. These are database structures used to store file metadata (and the file itself, if required). Though there is nothing new or innovative in managing metadata in a database and the content itself in a separate environment, the focus on partitioning content into many small document stores and then managing these via load balancers and webservers is somewhat different as it provides a web version of the more tradition client-server structure of original document/file management systems ..."

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Considering smaller ECM vendors

27-Mar-2007

Currently on Intelligent Enterprise you can read my recent review of Xythos Document Manager Version 6. Though I have a short fuse with those who say that "basic content services" (BCS) are all that any enterprise needs for their ECM requirements, I remain nonetheless supportive of "lite" offerings. ECM is such an overblown and overused term (but it's the only one we have) that encompasses everything from huge imaging and case management deployments to simple document collaboration projects. There is room for all the vendors who want to deliver value; the problem comes for the buyer to make sense of apparently similar, but actually widely divergent ECM products in this confused market. Many niche vendors such as as Xythos, Saperion, FormTek or Cimage can tend to be overlooked as a result, and that's a shame, because under the right circumstances they may offer a better fit for your needs than the likes of IBM, Interwoven or Open Text...

- Submitted by: Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Analyst

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